Will regular cycling make your legs/calves bigger??

[mimitabby]

Ruth....
sportin' the new and improved booty in NJ....

BTW just for laughs, do you all know they sell undies and pants to make your booty look this way?

Wasn't that called a Bustle once upon a time??

Glad you got one. I have a cousin who lacks one. Maybe I should convince her to start riding!!

[aicabsolut]

So far, cycling has made my legs look better and less bulky than in my track and field days. Leaner, more muscle definition, slightly less of a quadzilla.

This is about as shapely as I think my calves are ever gonna get. (skinny calves, quadzilla thighs). It's hard to find boots because they're too skinny..lol. So long as they don't get too wide for my riding boots, I don't care. But I love hot cyclist / soccer player calves on a guy. Maybe it's because I'll never get them myself.

As for the BOOTY... My cycling butt is rounder than my horsebackriding butt--which kind of becomes nonexistent from the endurance nature of using the glutes versus the power climbing on the bike. But it's smaller than my sprinting/hurdling butt. Good compromise, I think.

[CyclChyk]

I for one relish the onset of calve muscles. That means the jiggle is gone

[rocknrollgirl]

This morning as I was typing my response to this thread , DH came in the den and said "whatcha typin' " I said a girl on TE posted that she is concerned about getting big quaddies from biking...he looked at me and said...I swear...

Are you telling them about the BOOTY?

I am still laughing about it........


Ruth

[Melstar]

This morning as I was typing my response to this thread , DH came in the den and said "whatcha typin' " I said a girl on TE posted that she is concerned about getting big quaddies from biking...he looked at me and said...I swear...

Are you telling them about the BOOTY?

I am still laughing about it........


Ruth

lol! Well said.

[makbike]

I would say yes it does, for my chiropractor (a cyclist himself) noted that the muscles in my quads and calves had more bulk and definition - YES!!!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well, my legs are definitely more nicely shaped than before I started biking.
Before losing the 25 pounds, my legs were rounder all over, no noticable muscles to speak of. Jiggly areas (ugh).

Now (and I'm by no means finished reshaping yet!) the jiggle is pretty much gone. thinner knees by far, no big love handle lumps around hips, air space between thighs (bigtime). I can see nice strong calf muscles and some nice long front thigh muscles where there used to be just flab. Can also see muscles on the fronts of my shins (never had such things before!). I can feel the back thigh muscles. My waist is thinner, my "booty" is better shaped and some excess fat is gone. Shoulders have some muscle and are better defined. My arms are thinner but with more muscle.
And I don't even consider that I ride that much!

It's GREAT. How anyone can object to getting muscles is beyond me. I LOVE the way my body is reshaping itself!!